Enjoy the conference. Be sure to check out Urgent Career’s Jeff Stewart at the Vendor Watch Start-up Track…and be mindful of what you’re working on in public.
Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Keyboards Experiment 1/2 from Martin Vuagnoux on Vimeo.
Dave Manaster and team once again put together a great conference.
ERE’s Expos are hands down the best recruiting conferences for a number of reasons. They always have a great mix of people in attendance, engaging content and entertainment.
It consistently has the best ratio of recruiting professionals per vendor. So it’s rich with opportunities for recruiting professionals to network and learn.
For vendors the well attended conference offers opportunities to engage new prospects and win business opportunities. This is contrary to the problem that OnRec faced last year in San Francisco.
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Keynote speaker, Dr. Gene Stanaland was great.
The old-timer is an economics professor at Auburn. He speaks with a southern drawl and has a unique way of explaining economics through storytelling. He supports the points he makes with jokes. His presentation was as fun as it was entertaining.
The same can’t be said for the speakers that immediately followed him. Casting Director Miranda Rivers didn’t know her audience. Her speech was more of an insight into what it’s like on a movie set than it was rich with recruiting tips or best practice.
FedEx VP of Talent Acquisition, John Leech successfully acted out an hour long commercial for FedEx. I don’t think very many people walked out with a better understanding of how they can build their own employment brands.
A privacy discussion panel with Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler and privacy activist Deborah Pierce sparked some mildly heated debate. ERE chose well to pit Fowler and his sterling silver puzzle piece cuff-links against the clearly liberal and well informed privacy activist. I think Deborah got the best of him. The ERE’s expo blog has more on this.
Another cool session was the one on start-ups. The two start-ups that I thought were most likely to succeed were Path101 and VisualCV. JobScore’s CEO was enthusiastic and sweaty which I’m always happy to see in a CEO pitching his early stage venture but ultimately I think the sharing model is flawed.
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Last but not least…the charity poker tournament was a huge success. ERE raised over $13,000 for charity. Jason Davis and Dave Manaster did a great job pulling this off. I took third place.
I’m just back to nyc from the onrec conference in San Fransisco but leave soon for Atlanta where I’ll be leading a track at John Sumser’s Recruiting Roadshow. Details to follow.
Here are some quick notes from onrec.
General Notes
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There are million reasons why working in sales at Yahoo! HotJobs is awesome; not the least if which is the kegger we’re throwing next week for the intern’s 21st birthday and for the new hires. It’s rumored that the office Wii will be revealed at the party but at this point that’s all rumors and speculation. Beyond all the ridiculously fun things that go on here daily…warning…here comes the cheesy part…you’re often reminded why you work so long, why you take it all home at night and on the weekends and why this group of people and this purple brand become such a big part of your life and identity. |
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If you are looking to start a career in sales or take your sales career to the next level and are in new york or san fransisco you should get in touch with me or apply. |
Related:
At SHRM 2007, a ton of people asked me for information on Yahoo! Recruitment Advertising; the service that displays recruitment ads to targeted talent on Yahoo! sites like Finance, Mail, Personals etc.
Rather than send out a million emails, I figured I’d put a page together and share it with everyone interested. Hopefully I’ll find to time to add some video as well.
In the mean time, if you are interested or looking for new ways to attract niche or local passive job seekers, you can learn about Yahoo! Recruitment Advertising here.
If you would like to share or link to this page, please use this link:
http://www.jobsearchmarketing.com/yahoo_recruitment_advert.html
From my perspective as a Yahoo! HotJobs presenter…
SHRM attendees had a new level of engagement in our message. They had a greater understanding and appreciation for the impact that Yahoo!’s reach, targeting technologies and partnerships have on recruiting initiatives.
Recruiters love Super Recruiter Action Figures and Yahoo! HotJobs. The Yahoo! HotJobs SHRM 2007 Party was unreal.
From my perspective as a blogger…
I met a really cool and innovative recruiting technology company run by two young guys. Expect follow up on this.
I had a chance to speak with Craig Campbell, MGM GRAND’s Strategic Staffing Director. He and MGM have a monumental staffing initiative in front of them and will likely tap some innovative technologies to get the job done. I hope they are willing to share some insight.
HR Directors and Recruiters love bloggers and want to know more about how their organizations can best leverage blogs and careers site optimization to attract top talent and build employment brand awarenss.
I read a great book on the trip. Wikinomics. That book and the demand by HR Directors for insight into blogging are what was behind this post.
Cheezhead wins the $25 gift card for his contribution to my, ‘Top 10 Things Most Likely to be Overheard at SHRM 2007 in Las Vegas‘ contest.
…in all the show was a great success for Yahoo! HotJobs and I am excited to see signs that the traditionally super-slow to move HR consumer finally seems ready to adopt new technologies.
Early this morning I met a really interesting HR Director. You’ll get to meet her later, as we scheduled an interview. Long story short, she is excited about the idea of blogging for recruitment.
The fact that this was the absolute first person that I spoke with here at SHRM and considering the attendance at Jim Durbin’s session on blogging for recruitment at the ERExpo in San Diego, I think it’s obvious that corporate recruiting leaders want and need to know more.
So, I quickly put together this page with links to great content for the woman that I met this morning and for HR/Recruiting pros whom want to learn about blogging for recruitment.
Doing this got me thinking and I’d like to put together a complete guide by collaborating with thought leaders in the recruiting blog space. The guide will share our collective knowledge with with HR/Recruiting pros. If you are interested in participating, here’s what I’m thinking…
My goal is that this guide will soon be completed as a collaborated effort by some of the more influential recruiting bloggers; it will be a value-add to professionals seeking more strategic sourcing options; and it will provide each of us with the satisfaction of contributing valuable insight to our customers, partners and networks in need.
If our own employers would like to get behind this effort and sponsor it, then that would obviously provide some great thought leadership and value-adding brand exposure as well.
Please consider this post to be my invitation to participate.
I’d like to invite Jim Durbin and each of the panelists of his ERExpo session on recruiting blogs. They include Microsoft’s Heather Hamilton, T-Mobile’s Dennis Smith and the funniest guy ever…I forget his name (but he was absolutely awesome).
I’d also like to invite Joel Cheesman for his input on recruiting blogs from an SEO perspective and Shannon Seery Gude of Bernard Hodes for her insight into the impact that recruiting blogs provide employer branding efforts.
Moving forward this page will serve as a collaborative workspace on the project. I’ll figure out how to make it work once I’m back from SHRM.
For now, let’s have it serve as a source of links to great content on recruiting blogs for Recruiting and HR Professionals to get introduced to the concept and technologies behind blogging for recruitment.
I’ll be pointing all interested HR Professionals that I meet at SHRM to this page. So, if you are interested in adding value and helping out, please post a link to what you believe is great content for an HR or Recruiting Professional to read on the use of blogs for recruitment.
I’ve linked the content that I plan to share with the woman I met this morning. Please comment below with what you would like to share as well.
In preparation for SHRM 2007 in Las Vegas, I asked bunch of clients and industry contacts to share what they thought was most likely to be overheard at the conference.
10. Is that Cheezhead or a Philip Seymour Hoffman look alike?
9. HR Generalist 1: My boss thinks I’m here to get a new certification but really I’m networking for a new job.
9. HR Generalist 2: Me too.
8. SHRM? I think I’m at the wrong conference. Does anyone here speak ‘Kling-On’?
7. What happens at SHRM stays at SHRM.
6. The HR Director for Match.com is hitting on me. Is that inappropriate?
5. I’m going to expense my gambling losses.
4. Is that a super-recruiter in your pocket?
3. Where’s the kissing booth?
2. I do most of my recruiting from myspace… wink wink
…that’s up to you…comment below what you think is most likely to be overheard.
I’ll select the winner. Winner gets a $25 certificate to Starbucks.
SHRM’s down the road and Sin City’s calling me.
Tonight we turn the corner to June and I’m looking forward to meeting you all at the Yahoo! HotJobs party at TAO and to a handing out a very special gift. Battery included.
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